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Our Singing Country  :  Folk Songs and Ballads
(John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax)
No.	Chap.	Song
	I. RELIGIOUS SONGS
	1. Negro Spirituals
1		Prayer - This evening, our Father
2		Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves
3		Samson
4		The Man of Calvary
5		Job
6		John Done Saw That Number
7		John Was A-Writin'
8		Dem Bones
9		The Blood-Strained Banders
10		God Moves on the Water
11		God Don't Like It
12		Soon One Mornin' Death Come Creepin'
13		If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?
14		Choose You a Seat 'n' Set Down
15		Low Down Chariot
	2. White Religious Songs
16		Over Jordan
17		Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death
18		The Romish Lady
	3. The Holiness People
19		Keep Your Hand on That Plow
20		The Little Black Train
21		Holy Ghost
	II. SOCIAL SONGS
	1. White Dance Tunes
22		Bonyparte
23		Challahan
24		Hop Up, My Ladies
25		Duck in the Milpond
26		Lynchburg Town
27		Jimmy Git Around
28		King William Was King George's Son
29		Had a Little Fight in Mexico
30		The Bank of the Arkansaw
	2. Negro Game Songs
31		Ladies in the Dinin' Room
32		You Turn for Sugar an' Tea
33		Johnnie Bought a Ham
34		Little Bird, Go Through My Window
35		Don't You Like It?
36		Cocky Doodle Doodle Doo
37		Kitty, Kitty Casket
	3. Bahaman Negro Songs
38		The Wind Blow East
39		Buddy, Biddy
40		Never Get a Lickin' Till I Go Down to Bimini
41		Married Man Gonna Keep You Secret
42		A Wasp bite Nobi on Her Conch-Eye
43		Don't You Hurry Worry with Me
44		Round the Bay of Mexico
45		Whe de Whale Get Strike
46		Dig My Grave
	4. Lullabies
47		Mama's Gone to the Mail Boat
48		Ol' Hag, You See Mammy?
49		Daddy Shot a Bear
50		Hush, Li'l'  Baby
51		Crabe dans Calalou
52		Mary Was a Red Bird
53		Cotton Eye Joe
	5. Whoppers
54		Billy Barlow
55		The Crooked Gun
56		The Ram of Darby
57		The Lady Who Loved a Swine
58		Toll-a-Winker
59		The Marrowbone Itch
60		Old Blue
61		Wunst It Had an Old Gray Mare
62		Hog Rogues on the Harricane
63		God Liver Ile
64		Tom Bolyn
	6. Country Songs
65		The Bachelor's Lay
66		Katy Dorey
67		John McCardner
68		Lolly Too-Dum
69		Where Have You Been, My Good Old Man?
70		Jennie Jenkins
71		Married Me a Wife
72		Old Shoes and Leggin's
73		Blue Bottole
74		Devilish Mary
75		Do Come Back Aain
76		My Old True Love
77		Fare Ye Well, My Darlin'
78		I've Rambled This Country Both Earlye and Late
79		East Virginia
80		Long Lonesome Road
81		Little Bonny
	7. Old-Time Love Songs
82		Old Bangham
83		The Mermaid
84		Tee Roo
85		Sweet William
86		Black Jack Davy
87		The Irish Lady
88		The Lady of Carlisle
89		The Lame Soldier
90		Willy Reilly
91		John Riley
92		Lily Munro
93		The Lexinton Murder
94		The Rich Old Lady
	8. French Songs and Ballads from Southwestern Louisiana
95		Sept Ans sur Mer
96		Blanch Comme la Neige
97		Je Caresserai la Belle par Amitié
98		Qu'avec-vous, Qui, Belle Blonde
99		Le Petit Mari
100		Les Clefs de la Prison
101		Belle
	III. MEN AT WORK
	1. Soldiers and Sailors
102		The Frenchman's Ball
103		The True Paddy's Song
104		Trench Blues
105		Old King Cole
106		Santy Anno
107		Haul Away, My Rosy
108		The Low-Down, Lonesome Low
109		The High Barbaree
110		Greenland Whale Fishery
111		Dark-Eyed Canaller
112		The Bigler
	2. Lumberjacks and Teamsters
113		The Little Brown Bulls
114		Moosehead Lake
115		Johnny Stiles, or the Wild Mustard River
116		I Came to This Country in 1865
117		Ox-Driving Song
118		Yo Soy de la Tierra
	3. Cowboy Songs
119		Git Along, Little Dogies
120		As I Went A-Walking One Fine Summer's Evening
121		The Sporting Cowbow
122		Run Along, You Little Dogies
123		Texas Rangers
124		Diamond Joe
125		If He'd Be a Buckaroo
126		Doney Gal
127		Peter Gray
	4. Railroaders and Hobos
128		The Wreck on the Somerset Road
129		The White House Blues
130		John Henry
131		Sis Joe
132		Oh, Roll On, Babe
133		As I Went Out for a Ramble
134		Way Out in Idaho
	5. Miner's Songs
		Oh, My Liver and My Lungs
135		Down, Down, Down
136		Pay Day at Coad Creck
137		The Coad Miner's Child
	6. Farmers of the South
138		Po' Farmer
139		It's Hard on We Po' Famers
140		Ain't It Hard to Be a Right Black Nigger?
141		Georgia Land
142		Georgia Boy
143		Hard Times in the Country
144		The Dodger
145		Cotton-Mill Colic
146		Chilly Winds
	IV. OUTLAWS
147		Pass Around Your Bottle
148		Sweet Things
149		Three Night Drunk
150		Darling Corey
151		Jack o' Diamond
152		Stavin' Chain
153		My Father Gave Me a Lump of Gold
154		As I Set Down to Play Tin-Can
155		Little Willie's My Darlin'
156		Adieu to the Stone Walls
157		We Don't Get No Justice Here in Atlanta
158		The Reck and the Rambling Blade
159		When First to This Country a Stranger I Came
160		Brennan on the Moor
161		The Wild Colonial Boy
162		The Vance Song
163		The Rowan Country Crew
164		Harvey Logan
165		Dupree
166		Bugger Burns
167		Duncan and Brady
168		Baston
169		Po' Liz'us
	V. HOLLERS AND BLUES
170		Roustabout Holler
171		Trouble, Trouble
172		Mamman, Mamma
173		Go Down, Ol' Hannah
174		Make Me a Garment
175		Go Down, You Little Red Rising Sun
176		Prison Moan
177		Lights in the Quarters Burnin' Mighty Dim
178		Eadie
179		I Been a Bad, Bad Girl
180		Sun Gonna Shine in My Door Some Day
181		The Rising Sun Blues
182		Big Fat Woman
183		I'm a Stranger Here
184		I'm Worried Now But I Won't Be Worried Long
185		Lines from the Blues
	VI. NEGRO GANG SONGS
186		Take This Hammer
187		Don't Talk About It
188		Didn' Ol' John Cross the Water on His Knees?
189		Marthy Had a Baby
190		Lord, It's All, Almost Done
191		Ain't Workin' Song
192		I Got to Roll
193		You Kicked and Stomped and Beat Me
194		Drive It On
195		O Lawd I Went Up on the Mountain
196		Long Summer Day
197		Godamighty Drag
198		Johnny, Won't You Ramble?
199		Pauline
200		Look Down That Lonesome Road